[gentoo-dev] Implicit IUSE

2009-12-16 Thread Torsten Veller
* Jonathan Callen : > Torsten Veller wrote: > > Why is prefix not in IUSE? > > > > IUSE lists "the USE flags used by the ebuild. > > Historically, USE_EXPAND values and ARCH were not included..." > > > > prefix is not an ARCH. > > > > While prefix is not an ARCH or a in USE_EXPANDed variable,

[gentoo-dev] Major changes to gdesklets.eclass

2009-12-16 Thread Joe Sapp
Hi all, I've been wanting to make some changes to this eclass for a while since I've been putting on some bandages to make things work. This is a rather major overhaul. Basically packaging upstream got a lot more regulated since obz and I wrote the original eclass [1], so we can simplify many th

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib

2009-12-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Torsten Veller wrote: > Why is prefix not in IUSE? > > IUSE lists "the USE flags used by the ebuild. > Historically, USE_EXPAND values and ARCH were not included..." > > prefix is not an ARCH. > While prefix is not an ARCH or a in USE_EXPANDed var

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI={3,4} offset-prefix semantics mandatory?

2009-12-16 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:59:44 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: > With the current route where EAPI=3 will simply be EAPI=2 + > offset-prefix support, and EAPI=4 will be EAPI=3 + some other stuff, the > following question arose: > > Should an ebuild using an EAPI that has offset-prefix support make

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item for Paludis kdebuild-1 removal

2009-12-16 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Ciaran McCreesh : > Since kdebuild-1 is to be removed from PMS immediately, it's going to > go from Paludis in the next release too. We need to warn users about > this, since they'll no longer be able to uninstall kdebuild-1 > packages they have installed. Please review the following GLEP 42

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] EAPI={3,4} offset-prefix semantics mandatory?

2009-12-16 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Fabian Groffen : > On 16-12-2009 09:29:07 +0300, Peter Volkov wrote: > > В Втр, 15/12/2009 в 19:59 +0100, Fabian Groffen пишет: > > > Should an ebuild using an EAPI that has offset-prefix support > > > make the use of that support mandatory or optional? > > > > I think no. Without real tes

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 commit in perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib

2009-12-16 Thread Torsten Veller
* "Jonathan Callen (abcd)" : > EAPI=2 > IUSE="test" > src_prepare() { > + use prefix || EPREFIX= Why is prefix not in IUSE? IUSE lists "the USE flags used by the ebuild. Historically, USE_EXPAND values and ARCH were not included..." prefix is not an ARCH. BTW: don't we bump EAPI to n

[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-apps/compare

2009-12-16 Thread Diego E . Pettenò
# Diego E. Pettenò (16 dic 2009) # on behalf of QA team # # Fails to build with glibc 2.10 (bug #297210), ignores flags # (bug #241982), lacks a Gentoo maintainer, never bumped # since its adding in 2005, substandard ebuild QA-wise # (does not die on _any_ failure). # # Removal on 2010-02-14 sys

Re: [gentoo-dev] CAcert certificate distribution license to third parties (i.e. distributors like gentoo)

2009-12-16 Thread Daniel Black
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 23:19:22 Richard Freeman wrote: > On 12/15/2009 01:46 AM, Daniel Black wrote: > > I did email the debian maintainer too. no response yet. They have > > interactive builds though and I guess we do too now. Will be a royal pain > > if every CA/software did the same thing.

[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for dev-ruby/ruby-xlib

2009-12-16 Thread Diego E . Pettenò
# Diego E. Pettenò (16 dic 2009) # on behalf of QA team # # No upstream release since 2005, unused in Gentoo, smaller # QA issues and some worrisome warnings from X11 functions. # # Removal on 2010-02-14 dev-ruby/ruby-xlib

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA last rites for x11-wm/ion

2009-12-16 Thread Alistair Bush
> Le 15/12/2009 08:09, Ulrich Mueller a écrit : > >> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > >> > >> On the other hand this may be something for treecleaners? A package > >> that has not been bumped for 7 years? With at least three releases > >> since, and a bumprequest open for at leas

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI={3,4} offset-prefix semantics mandatory?

2009-12-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 16-12-2009 09:29:07 +0300, Peter Volkov wrote: > В Втр, 15/12/2009 в 19:59 +0100, Fabian Groffen пишет: > > Should an ebuild using an EAPI that has offset-prefix support make the > > use of that support mandatory or optional? > > I think no. Without real testing that package works in prefix

Re: [gentoo-dev] metdata.dtd should require

2009-12-16 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 15/12/2009 16:19, Peter Volkov a écrit : we will force all metadata.xml files have strict order of tags: first then other tags. Currently there are about 200 ebuilds with different order http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279206#c4 . Others and I actually make use of the order in metad

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI={3,4} offset-prefix semantics mandatory?

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Volkov
В Втр, 15/12/2009 в 19:59 +0100, Fabian Groffen пишет: > Should an ebuild using an EAPI that has offset-prefix support make the > use of that support mandatory or optional? I think no. Without real testing that package works in prefix there is no need to bother and create illusion that it does